"You can insure against a financial loss; you can't insure against
a data loss," said Online Tech CEO Yan Ness.

Expanding to meet exploding demand for secure data, Online Tech received
a $20 million investment from News-Press & Gazette
Company to build four additional data centers across the Midwest and
continues to add staff to its Ann Arbor headquarters.

Online Tech is increasingly strengthening
its standards for data safety ahead of stricter industry and government
standards on the horizon.

The company is also growing after Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina
showed the potential vulnerability of many data centers. Michigan, in
comparison, is safer
from natural disaster than any other state in the
Continental U.S. Companies in flood-prone areas are looking
more to the nation’s “North Coast" in the Midwest.

Other parts of the nation suffered some high profile data breaches
recently:

South Carolina’s Department of Revenue was recently breached,
impacting sensitive data for 3.8 million residents.Investigators
found the breach started with a phishing email in August.

Retailer Zappos lost the personal details — including physical
and email addresses — of 24 million customers.

Trustwave’s 2012 Global Security Report recently found: customer
records comprised 89 percent of all breached data investigated; more
than a third of all 2011 breaches occurred in the franchise industry;
third-parties were responsible for introducing security deficiencies in
76 percent of all breaches and data in-transit were targeted in 62.5
percent of data breaches.

Disaster Recovery Webinar Series

Online Tech is hosting a three-part series of interactive,
educational disaster recovery webinars spanning several weeks in January
and February 2013.This webinar series is ideal for any
organization interested in IT disaster recovery and business continuity
planning.In the first webinar, Online Tech Systems Support
Manager and CISSP, Steve Aiello will cover an overview of business
continuity and disaster recovery with real company examples as well as
the benefits of developing a business continuity plan.Business
Continuity in Lean Times will be held Tuesday,
January 15 at 2 P.M. ET. Register
for the full series online.

About Online Tech

Online Tech,
Michigan’s largest managed data center is becoming the largest in the
Midwest, expanding into at least four new markets. The “Fort Knox" for
data is known for complete redundancy - “backups for everything” - from
multiple back-up generators and backup systems to locations straddling
two power grids and even two CEOs.

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